West Ham United (A) | Sun 7th Aug | Post Match Thread

[coolcity]

I am delighted that we won, I've already said that.

I'm not getting on their backs, I've said that I was sorry to see them go, but let's be absolutely clear - Haaland is a significant upgrade on both of them.

I really liked Sterling as a player - fast, tricky and his movement was brilliant but as a finisher he was poor. He wouldn't have scored that 2nd goal today. Haaland will score these chances and I honestly think that he will win us the CL this season. We've not had a striker since Aguero left and today we've seen one who's absolute class.

Exactly this. People have completely misunderstood. we're simply saying we have a player who is more likely to score more goals now. It's a prediction, not a criticism of former players.

 

[Mariosfireworks]

This has been done to death for the past few hours. Nobody is making comparisons, it all started off when some of us were saying that Haaland is likely to score more 1 on 1s than Sterling.

Since then it's been taken out of context and people are complaining that we're slagging off Sterling or anybody else. Nobody is doing that, we're simply saying it feels good to have an out and out striker who is more likely to score in those situations. How it's come to this I have no idea. It's just a conversation.

Yep it is is a conversation, and what your not getting is why bring players into it that dont play for us anymore? it's irrelevant and pointless, last season was last season and we were champions, and sterling, Jesus and zinchenco all played a massive part in it

 

[Scott mcfc]

Great win,tough away game west ham ,and its out of way with 3 points,haaland going to be a machine,we havent even got goin yet,going to be frightenin in a few games when were in our stride

 

[coolcity]

Yes, i understand the add ons which are all subject to certain targets being met. It has been almost universally reported that the fee was £51m including SKY today when the said it was a “snip”. My question is why does the BBC away it was £85m ?

Well, same answer really, they're probably quoting the final fee after add-ons. Why they would want to do that, I don't know.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Never felt more like singin the blues

 

[coolcity]

Yep it is is a conversation, and what your not getting is why bring players into it that dont play for us anymore? it's irrelevant and pointless, last season was last season and we were champions, and sterling, Jesus and zinchenco all played a massive part in it

FFS how many times do I have to explain this? WE KNOW THAT!

We're just saying that we now have a striker that's likely to score more than either of those did. We're not knocking them at all.

Why does anybody have as problem with us discussing former players? Should we never mention Bell, Lee and Summerbee again, or Toure, Kompany and Aguero? Jeeze.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Great win,tough away game west ham ,and its out of way with 3 points,haaland going to be a machine,we havent even got goin yet,going to be frightenin in a few games when were in our stride

This, we still look a week or two away from being at our best, when we click It's going to be fun times.

 

[Mariosfireworks]

FFS how many times do I have to explain this? WE KNOW THAT!

We're just saying that we now have a striker that's likely to score more than either of those did. We're not knocking them at all.

Why does anybody have as problem with us discussing former players? Should we never mention Bell, Lee and Summerbee again, or Toure, Kompany and Aguero? Jeeze.

Not on a matchday forum no, like I said irrelevant and Bullshit

 

[super_city_si]

First 2 minutes aside that was as comfortable and controlled as weve been. we were superb. The icing though is 2 shots on target and 2 goals. Haaland is lethal. This is a new city.

 

[Mariosfireworks]

FFS how many times do I have to explain this? WE KNOW THAT!

We're just saying that we now have a striker that's likely to score more than either of those did. We're not knocking them at all.

Why does anybody have as problem with us discussing former players? Should we never mention Bell, Lee and Summerbee again, or Toure, Kompany and Aguero? Jeeze.

If a centre half misses a header would you say oh Kompany would have won that header? No you wouldn't it's like your trying to justify the players in and out